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    442 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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    456 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 67 (recto) by Matthias Mignerak, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 67 (recto)

Matthias Mignerak

1605 · Woodcut

Cleared · Public Domain

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Blackwork Designs with Acrobats, Butterflies and Other Insects, Plate 3 from a Series of Blackwork Ornaments combined with Figures, Birds, Animals and Flowers by Meinert Gelijs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Blackwork Designs with Acrobats, Butterflies and Other Insects, Plate 3 from a Series of Blackwork Ornaments combined with Figures, Birds, Animals and Flowers

Meinert Gelijs

after 1622 · Blackwork and engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Country Ballet (Ballet Champêtre), from Essai de Papilloneries Humaines par Saint Aubin by Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Country Ballet (Ballet Champêtre), from Essai de Papilloneries Humaines par Saint Aubin

Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (d. 1786)

ca. 1756–60 · Etching; first state of two

Cleared · Public Domain

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Title page from Essay on Butterflies Masquerading as Humans (Essai de Papilloneries Humaines) by Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title page from Essay on Butterflies Masquerading as Humans (Essai de Papilloneries Humaines)

Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (d. 1786)

ca. 1756–60 · Etching; first state of two

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Enchanted Tree by Richard Doyle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Enchanted Tree

Richard Doyle (d. 1883)

1868 · Watercolor, gouache, gummed watercolor, applied in layered, opaque and transparent washes with the underlying paper revealed in minute areas throughout the composition

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Plate 106: Various birds, from "A New Book of Chinese Designs"

Matthias Darly (d. 1780)

1754 · Etching and engraving

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Plate 118: Double Thorn & Anemone Rose, from "A New Book of Chinese Designs"

Matthias Darly (d. 1780)

1754 · Photostat

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Plate 70: Water Rose & Ranunculus, from "A New Book of Chinese Designs"

Matthias Darly (d. 1780)

1754 · Etching and engraving

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

The works of Max Beerbohm

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (d. 1944)

1896

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

The Bastille : [volume 1]

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (d. 1944)

1901

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Papillons: vingt planches en phototypie coloriées au patron donnant 81 papillons et 16 compositions décoratives

Emile-Allain Séguy (d. 1951)

[ca. 1920–29] · Lithographs and pochoir

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Formes et Couleurs, Planche 18

Auguste H. Thomas (d. 1935)

ca. 1930 (?) · Pochoir

In copyright

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